Last weekend, if you were at WhereCampEU in Berlin (blog post to follow) , you may have caught my sneak peak into the new GeoCommons 2.0, which has been revealed just the other day. Here are some of the highlights of the new GeoCommons

The flash map has been overhauled and re-written, mainly by Andrei – and it can handle hundreds of thousands numbers of points quite happily

Analytics library is completed, but not currently accessible to normal users of GeoCommons – hopefully it will be soon, if people want it.

Behind the scenes, the system uses a number of distributed workers and tasks to offload processing intensive or long processing tasks

Datasets and Maps get given nice overview images, and the attributes of datasets have histograms generated for them

Data can be edited in the system, and filtered, and saved either to replace itself or as a new dataset

Animation of temporal data is much nicer now

Polymaps for HTML5 non-flash map support

Filters can be applied to the map, so that attributes can be filtered out.

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